Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – Finally, Mike Swick was going to take a vacation. After being in the American Kickboxing Academy Gym non-stop for most of 2009, the welterweight contender was just waiting on his visa to come in so he could go to Brazil, relax, do some training and basically unwind from a year that [...]
There have been 61 fighters in UFC history who were pro wrestlers at one point or another. There are nine on the current UFC roster. Of the six fighters in the UFC Hall of Fame, three – Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn and Mark Coleman – dabbled in wrestling.
But UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar is the [...]
Mark Coleman is an aging man by society’s everyday standards, but by MMA standards, he’s practically ancient. Yet like any former elite fighter and anyone who takes pride in their profession, Coleman reminds confident, even borderline cocky. The 44-year-old grandfather of the ground-and-pound style has said recently that his style matches up well with [...]